Social capital and entrepreneurship
Essential readings
Bauernschuster, S., Falck, O., Heblich, S. (2010). Social capital access and entrepreneurship. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 76 (3), 821-833
We investigate the effect of social capital access on entrepreneurship. Social capital helps...
Important readings
No elements present.
Reading list archive
Bahmani, S., Galindo, M.-A., Mendez, M. T. (2012). Non-profit organizations, entrepreneurship, social capital and economic growth. Small Business Economics 38 (3), 271-281.
Traditional economic growth literature focuses mainly on the neoclassical approach. According to...
Batjargal, B. (2007). Comparative Social Capital: Networks of Entrepreneurs and Venture Capitalists in China and Russia. Management and Organization Review 3 (3), 397–419
I compare networks of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in China and Russia by examining...
Batjargal, B., Liu, M. (2004). Entrepreneurs' Access to Private Equity in China: The Role of Social Capital. Organization Science 15 (2), 159-172
Drawing on Social network theory, this article argues for enhancing effects of social capital of...
Bowles, S., Carpenter, J., Gintis, H., Ha-Hwang, S. (2009). Strong reciprocity and team production: Theory and evidence. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 71 (2), 221-232
Punishment of shirkers is often an effective means of attenuating incentive problems and sustaining...
Garofalo, G., Sabatini, F. (2008). Homo Oeconomicus? Dinamiche imprenditoriali in laboratorio. Bologna: Il Mulino
In che modo gli imprenditori compiono le loro scelte? La teoria economica tradizionale presuppone...
Guiso, L., Rustichini, A. (2011). What drives women out of entrepreneurship? The joint role of testosterone and culture
Exploiting variation across communities in indices correlated with women emancipation, we show that...
Guiso, L., Sapienza, P-, Zingales, L. (2006). Does Culture Affect Economic Outcomes? Journal of Economic Perspectives 20(2): 23-48
Until recently, economists have been reluctant to rely on culture as a possible determinant of...
Guiso, L., Sapienza, P., Zingales, L. (2009). Cultural biases in economic exchange? Quarterly Journal of Economics, 124 (3), 1095-1131.
How much do cultural biases affect economic exchange? We try to answer this questio by using data...
Guiso, L., Sapienza, P., Zingales, L. (2015). The value of corporate culture. Journal of Financial Economics 117(1): 60-76.
We study which dimensions of corporate culture are related to a firm׳s performance and why. We find...
Guiso, L., Sapienza, P., Zingales, L. (2016). Long term persistence. Journal of the European Economic Association 14-6, 1401–1436
We study whether a positive historical shock can generate long-term persistence in development. We...
Jackson, M. O., Rogers, B., Zenou, Y. (2016). Networks: an economic perspective. In R. Light and J. Moody (Eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Social Network Analysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
We discuss social network analysis from the perspective of economics. We organize the presentation...
Jackson, M.O., Rogers, B.W. and Y. Zenou (2017). The economic consequences of social network structure. Journal of Economic Literature 55(1), 1-47.
We survey the literature on the economic consequences of the structure of social networks. We...
Tabellini, G. (2010). Culture and Institutions, Economic Development in the Regions of Europe. Journal of the European Economic Association 8(4), 677–716
Does culture have a causal effect on economic development? The data on European regions suggest...
